Academic Language: What Is It and How Do We Acquire It?

Springer International Handbooks of Education

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages 797-810

  Cummins, Jim ^a   Yee Fun, Evelyn Man ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

English Language Teaching; English Proficiency; Language Proficiency; Reading Comprehension; Vocabulary Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884170005     PISSN: 21971951     EISSN: 2197196X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-46301-8_53     Document Type: Chapter

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